President elections are protected With Jammers
Once again Ukrainians had to choose a president who will lead them to the bright future and as usual some political forces did everything possible to win, even if it was against the law. In addition to ”ordinary” ways of falsification that were used in 2004, improved ways of interfering into voting process took place.
Everyone knows that the most widely spread method of falsification at any elections is bribing of voters. The thing is that this method has one big disadvantage, there is a possibility that voter will take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies made possible for a person to gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gizmos. So several political forces started to place small hidden wireless cams on the bribed voters to get real time video from voting cabin and so got the opportunity to check whether the voter made the “right” choice. Also for these purposes cell phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammer to block 2.4 GHz waves and thus to prevent opponents from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to block all mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only blocks all those bands but also is extremely compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for cell phoneblockers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In January 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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